Security

Last week I heard that the TeamSpeak Server is vulnerable to port 51234 attacks and already disabled it on our clanserver.
Now there exists a non-public exploit, according to Heise Security. One solution is to either close that port as I did or update to the beta release.
All Windows …

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A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional vulnerabilities in the design of the new documents and the inspection systems used to read them.

Lukas Grunwald, an RFID expert who has served as an e-passport consultant …

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The newly created german anti-hacker-paragraph 202c StGB let the developers of KisMAC to stop working on the project.
It's not yet clear if development is temporarily suspended to bring it up again in the netherlands.

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Many times, the size of your programs do matter, to save bandwith and resources for you and end-users, or if your target platform has restrictions on resources available. Many compilers have their own settings for optimizing code with size in mind, so does the GNU C/C++ Compiler.

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German security expert and reverse engineer Thomas Dullien of Sabre Security, better known by his pseudonym of Halvar Flake, has revealed that he has been refused entry to the USA for the forthcoming Black Hat conference. Following a four and a half-hour interview with immigration authorities, he was sent home …